There's no way out for these immigrant women, even after living in a western society [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2020

Regardless of the number of setbacks Nisha must face, What Will People Say never feels like misery porn. In fact, it's gripping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2020

What Will People Say provides surprising moments of tenderness amid heart-pounding drama.

| Nov 22, 2019

While the movie itself is about as subtle as a brick to the head, the actress brings vulnerability and tenderness to her role, and generates empathy through her performance.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 19, 2019

The film's title was chosen with care, because community judgement looms large in this film...

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 26, 2018

A riveting drama about the toxic energy that fundamentalists can unleash on those they want to control.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2018

Mozhdah and Hussain are terrific in the film that tests the audience's tolerance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2018

Haq soon levels one torture after another on Nisha, sacrificing nuanced storytelling for blunt force trauma and reducing everyone that isn't Nisha into caricature.

| Original Score: C | Oct 18, 2018

[Haq] presents the story in a formulaic, tendentious manner, not allowing its human and ideological complexities to shine through.

| Sep 17, 2018

The credibility of the staging... comes from the precise work of its performers. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2018

Everyone in the protagonists's environment... reasons and acts in the same way, [becoming] a film that wastes the opportunity to explore the differences of opinion that may generate some kind of conflict. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2018

An interesting work, although failed, in which, seen by parts its sequences, everything is realistic and credible, but in which internal coherence is lacking. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 17, 2018

Honest. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2018

Iram Haq, director and screenwriter, knows the story that's told here all to well, and it shows in her way of structuring and exposing it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2018

A real-life terror trip but with human ghouls and goblins.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 10, 2018

What Will People Say is a film that grows, and that is more meaningful, when it is more intimate than external. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2018

The movie becomes something more than just another tale of cross-cultural, cross-generational misunderstanding: a harrowing drama of emotional abuse.

| Aug 2, 2018

What Will People Say? is both potent and problematic, an experiment on how much merciless grief a viewer can tolerate before declaring "Okay, we get the point!".

| Jul 27, 2018

For portrayal of so-called "honor crime," unique film emotionally touches issues in some 1st generation immigrant communities in West from point of view of 2nd generation.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 20, 2018

As the Norwegian snow gives way to sunbaked Pakistani desert on screen, you'll feel a tug between the awful and the artful

| Jul 19, 2018